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My mother’s parents came from Hungary, but my grandfather could trace his or

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问题     My mother’s parents came from Hungary, but my grandfather could trace his origin to Germany and also he was educated in Germany. Although he was able to hold a conversation in nine languages, he was most comfortable in German. Every morning, before going to his office, he read tile German language newspaper, which was American owned and published in New York.
    My grandfather was the only one in his family to come to the United States with his wife and children . He still had relatives living in Europe. When the first world war broke out, he lamented the fact if my uncle, his,only son had to go, it would be cousin fighting against cousin. In the early days of the war, my grandmother begged him to stop taking the German newspaper and to take an English language newspaper, instead. He scoffed at the idea, explaining that the fact it was in German did not make it a German newspaper, but only an American newspaper, printed in German. But my grandmother insisted, for fear that the neighbors may see him read it and think he was German. So, he finally gave up tile German newspaper.
    Oneday, the inevitable happened and my uncle Milton received notice to join the army, My grandparents were very upset, but my mother, his little sister, was excited. Now she could boast about her soldier brother going off to war. She was ten years old at the time, and my uncle, realizing how he was regarded by his little sister and her friends, went,put and bought them all service pins, which meant that they had a loved one in the service. All the little girls were delighted. When the day came for him to leave, his whole regiment, in their uniforms, left together form the same train statipn. There was a band playing and my mother and her friends came to see him off. Each one wore her service pin and waved a small American flag, cheering the boys, as they left.
    The moment came and the soldiers, all very young, none of whom had any training, but who had nevertheless all been issued uniforms, boarded the train, The band played and the crowd,cheered. The train groaned as if it knew the,destiny to which it was taking its passengers, but it soon began to move. Still cheering and waving their lags, the band still playing, the train slowly departed the station.
    It had gone about a thousand: yards when it suddenly ground to a halt. The band stopped playing, the crowd stopped cheering. Everyone gazed in wonder as the train slowly backed up and returned to the station, it seemed an eternity until the doors opened and the men started to file out. Somepne shouted, "It’s the armistice. The war is over." For a moment, nobody moved, but then the people heard someone bark orders at the soldiers. The men lined up and formed into two lines. They walked down the steps and, with the band playing behind, paraded down the street, as returning heroes, to be welcomed home by the assembled crowd. The next day my uncle returned to his job, and my grandfather resumed reading the German newspaper, which he read until the day be died. [br] The narrator’s mother wanted her brother to go to fight in the war, because_____.
选项 A、like everybody else at the war time, she was very patriotic
B、she hated the war and the Germans very much
C、all her friends bad relatives in war and she wanted to be like them
D、she liked to have a brother she could think if as a hero
答案 D
解析 题目问：叙述者的母亲为什么希望自己的哥哥去参加战争?通过阅读文章可知，母亲那时很小，当听说哥哥要去参军了，很是兴奋。因为她可以向别人夸耀说她有一位去战场的军人哥哥。暗含的意思就是有一位英雄哥哥。文章第三段“My grandparents were very upset，but my mother，his little sister，was excited. Now she could boast about her soldier brother going off to war．”据此可知，应该选择D。
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